Moistening device.



B. P. LEISER;

MOISTENING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED r1113. s, 1908.

999,743 Patented Oct. 13,1908.

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' vgBegit known that-.1, BEN AMIR F fLar'snn,

-a-- -.citizen ;d the- United States, residing at "a simply constructed device which may beinserted in cigar boxes among the cigars, or

in other receptacles, and. which is adjustable to enable it tobe adapted to boxes of different sizes.

' clip or loop. Fig. 5 is an end view of the 'With these and other objects in view the invention consists incertain novel features of construction as hereafter shown and described and specifically pointed out in the claims, and-in the drawings employed for illustrating the preferred embodiment of the invention.

Figurel is'a perspective view of a cigar' box containing a number of cigars-with one of the improved devicesarranged between f the side walls of. the box. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal'sectional view of the device enlarged.

Fig. 3 is an elevation of the im roved device. Fig. 4 is a sectionaldetail i ustrating the manner of forming the spring supporting part shown in Fig. 4-. I

The improved device comprises two tubular members 1011, one smaller in diameter than the other, so that they may be telescopically connected, as shown, the member 10 having a closed end 12 and the member 11 having closed end 13. The members 10-.-1 1 are provided respectively with spaced erforations 1415,- to permit the moisture imparting element to readily be accessible to the air outsidethe. members 10.11'.

Disposed within the members 1011' is a coiled spring 16 connected at its ends respectively to the'clos'ures 12-13, and exerting its force to maintain the members 10-11 yieldablyin distended position, so that when disin a position-inn box represented at Specificationfot Letters Patent. hppliicati on filed February}, 190a. s mina. 414,110.

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presence of moisture im will retain the moisture.

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1?, with the closed ends. 1213 bearing againstlthe opposite walls of the box, the

vice in any desired position within the box. In Figs. 4 and5, 1s shown the preferred means for attaching the ends of the spring to the closures 12-13, consisting in forming in the closures s aced slits and bending the metal released y the slits inwardly to form loops, one of which is represented at 18 in ,Figs. 4 and 5, the spring being attached to these loops by inserting the end whirls thereof within them. The loops 18 will preferably apring will exert its force to maintain the 1 be formed near one end of the members 12 13, and the end whirls of the spring will be so formed that when thes ring is inserted, for Instance, into the mem er 10 with its end whirls against the closure 12 and thes ring rotated, the terminal ofthe endwhir will enter the loop and thus connect the spring to the end closure, and then when the member 11 is disposed over the spring until its other endwhirl bears against the closure 13 and the member 11 rotated, the terminal of the end whirl will enter the loop of the closure 13,

and thus couple the spring in position. Themoistener element is indicated at 19, and

may be of any suitable material such as felt,

c0tton,'woo 1, mineral wool,'or the likewhich The moisture containing element is in cylindrical form and rests'within the spring, and is supported thereby, as shown in Fig. 2.

.By this means it is obvious that a very sim ly constructed and eflicient device is pro need, which may be readily adjusted within a cigar box or other receptacle, and supported by the force of the spring in any desired position to cause the air within the box to be moistened, and thus maintain the the box in the proper condition.

required size of any suitable material, and adapted for receptacles of various sizes and shapes and for containing different kinds of oods.

g The device may be inexpensively manufactured and operates efiectually for the purposes describe .Havin thus described the invention, what isclaime as new is:

The shellmember 10-11 may be of any.

1. y A cigar moistener comprising two perforated tubular members telescopicallyar ranged, a spring within said tubular members and operating to maintain the same yieldably distended, and absorbent material 'within the tubular members and supported by the spring.

2. A device of the character described comprising two perforated tubular members telescopically arranged and open at the inner .ends and closed at the outer ends, a spring within said tubular members and bearing against said closed ends and operating to maintain the tubular members yieldably dis-, tended, and absorbent material within the tubular members and supported by the spring. 4

3. A device of the class described comprising two perforated tubular members telescopically arranged, a spring within said tubular members and operating to maintain the same yieldably distended, and absorbent material within the spring and supported thereby.

4 A device of the class described and comprising two erforated members telescopically arrange and open at the inner ends and closed at the outer ends with inwardly extending loops carried by said closed ends, a

spring within said tubularmembers and engaging said loops ply the terminal whirls, and absorbent materi within the tubular members.

5. A device of the class described comprising two perforated tubular members telesee ically arranged and open at the inner en s and closed at the outer ends with inwardly extending loops carried by said closed ends, a spring within said tubular members terial between the slits bent into inwardly extending loops, a spring within said tubular members and engaging said loops by the ter-' minal whirls, and absorbent material within the tubular members.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

' BENJAMIN F. LEISER. Witnesses:

GEORGE OLTSCH, G. M. COLE. 

